{"id":1449,"date":"2012-03-20T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:05:28","slug":"one-nation-two-health-care-extremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/one-nation-two-health-care-extremes\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation, Two Health Care Extremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on health care in 2010 \u2014 more than the entire economy of France or Britain. But the amount spent and how it&#8217;s used varies from state to state.<\/p>\n<p>And no two states are more different than Texas and Massachusetts. At 25 percent, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation. Massachusetts, where a 2006 law made coverage mandatory, has the lowest rate \u2014 fewer than 2 percent of people are uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s All Things Considered takes a look at two Americans who are living the reality of that difference. In Texas, Melinda Maarouf, 55, is one of 6 million Texans without health coverage. In Massachusetts, Peter Brook, 51, is one of the 439,000 residents who now have coverage as a result of the state law.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2012\/03\/19\/148920950\/one-nation-two-health-care-extremes\">One Nation, Two Health Care Extremes : Shots &#8211; Health Blog : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on health care in 2010 \u2014 more than the entire economy of France or Britain. But the amount spent and how it&#8217;s used varies from state to state. And no two states are more different than Texas and Massachusetts. At 25 percent, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22,7],"tags":[125,949,123,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}